“Having an aborted foetus turning ghost is quite something. Perhaps not too far away in the distant, dark future, we will probably have embryos and zygotes turning ghosts too.”
Category: Film Reviews
Truth or Dare: Dull, sterile imagining of a fun premise
“It’s almost as if noone behind its making realised that any efforts to solemnify this inherently mad material, would only be futile.”
Mercury: A worthy experiment with some memorable stretches of filmmaking
Towards the end, the actual version of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata takes centrestage. It’s quite appropriate not just because one of the characters is a self-confessed Beethoven fan, but because the story in a sense is actually Moonlight Sonata.
Ready Player One: A digital visual feast designed to please the geek in you
“Eventually, he’s shown to buy that reality is somehow more preferable, because well, that’s the right thing to say, right? I never truly bought that he bought that. It’s probably got to do something with the film’s reluctance to really delve into the topic, save for these occasional self-righteous detours which I suppose were deemed morally necessary.”
Lady Bird: A rewarding coming-of-age story that’s unusually warm and deep
“They can’t stand to be together, and yet, they cannot stop loving each other. Perhaps you could say that it mirrors their own feelings about themselves.”
Sudhir Srinivasan 